Explore all aspects of what it means to be a professional photographer in the 21st Century on this degree course.

Learn practical skills including exposure and metering, digital workflow, colour and black and white printing, studio lighting, large and medium format, planning and installing exhibitions, professional photographic portfolio development and moving image.

You’ll work across the subject of photography choosing to focus on areas such as art, documentary, editorial, commercial, advertising and critical writing on photography, tailored to your own personal interests and career aspirations.

With access to traditional and digital photographic facilities with industry-standard equipment, you’ll learn how to use and adopt skills to develop your creativity, working between analogue and digital. Explore a range of self-directed learning experiences combining practice with theory, enabling you to develop your creative style and establish your unique photographic practice.

Our graduates are leaders within the creative industries and you will be joining an extended alumni club who help us to create opportunities for you in terms of work experience and graduate career prospects.

Key features

• Work with industry-standard facilities, learning skills in traditional photographic methods, digital media, and emerging technologies.
• Work broadly across the subject, including art, documentary, editorial, advertising and fashion photography, and critical writing.
• Develop your professional skills through live projects, industry competitions, and collaborations with organisations.
• Benefit from our guest lecturer series, with speakers from a range of photographic practices.
• Take part in the development and organisation of a photography festival in your final year, showcasing your work at venues across Nottingham, with further opportunities to exhibit at other graduating events.
• Alumni have gone on to roles such as creative director at Jamie Oliver and companies such as Getty Sports Images.
• We are proud to be in the top ten in England and Wales for Art and Design (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020).
• NTU is ranked 12th in the UK for Art and Design. (The Complete University Guide 2021).

Photography students work across the range of the creative Industries when they graduate. Roles include:

• photographer
• picture editor
• artist
• retoucher
• filmmaker
• curator
• teacher
• marketer
• community arts worker
• blogger
• writer
• musician
• stylist
• archivis
• freelancer.